Crane
(n.) A measure for fresh herrings, -- as many as will fill a barrel. |
Crane
(n.) A wading bird of the genus Grus, and allied genera, of various species, having a long, straight bill, and long legs and neck. |
Crane
(n.) A machine for raising and lowering heavy weights, and, while holding them suspended, transporting them through a limited lateral distance. In one form it consists of a projecting arm or jib of timber or iron, a rotating post or base, and the necessary tackle, windlass, etc. |
Crane
(n.) An iron arm with horizontal motion, attached to the side or back of a fireplace, for supporting kettles, etc., over a fire. |
Crane
(n.) A siphon, or bent pipe, for drawing liquors out of a cask. |
Crane
(n.) A forked post or projecting bracket to support spars, etc., -- generally used in pairs. See Crotch, 2. |
Crane
(v. t.) To cause to rise |
Crane
(v. t.) To stretch, as a crane stretches its neck |
Crane
(v. i.) to reach forward with head and neck, in order to see better |
Crane's-bill
(n.) The geranium |
Crane's-bill
(n.) A pair of long-beaked forceps. |
Excito-motor
(a.) Excito-motory |
Ideo-motor
(a.) Applied to those actions, or muscular movements, which are automatic expressions of dominant ideas, rather than the result of distinct volitional efforts, as the act of expressing the thoughts in speech, or in writing, while the mind is occupied in the composition of the sentence. |
Incito-motor
(a.) Inciting to motion |
Inhibitory-motor
(a.) A term applied to certain nerve centers which govern or restrain subsidiary centers, from which motor impressions issue. |
Motor
(n.) One who, or that which, imparts motion |
Motor
(n.) A prime mover |
Motor
(n.) Alt. of Motorial |
Psycho-motor
(a.) Of or pertaining to movement produced by action of the mind or will. |
Travel
(v. i.) To labor |
Travel
(v. i.) To go or march on foot |
Travel
(v. i.) To pass by riding, or in any manner, to a distant place, or to many places |
Travel
(v. i.) To pass |
Travel
(v. t.) To journey over |
Travel
(v. t.) To force to journey. |
Travel
(n.) The act of traveling, or journeying from place to place |
Travel
(n.) An account, by a traveler, of occurrences and observations during a journey |
Travel
(n.) The length of stroke of a reciprocating piece |
Travel
(n.) Labor |
Travel-tainted
(a.) Harassed |
Water crane
() A goose-neck apparatus for supplying water from an elevated tank, as to the tender of a locomotive. |
Water motor
() A water engine. |
Water motor
() A water wheel |